I think it's telling that this Libertarian joke was modded "+1, Funny" while the one below poking fun at carbon-neutral environmentalists was modded "-1, Troll".
If you really want to fix things, start controlling the number of people on the planet. We're eating up resources at a prodigious rate, technology is helping, but not fixing it.
I doubt the average Slashdotter is doing much to contribute to the population problem.
Seriously, the population is rising in third-world countries where they are unable and unwilling to do anything about it; meanwhile, the peoples with the knowledge and motivation to take action are decreasing in numbers (and doing little more than proselytizing to the wrong crowd).
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I heard of someone jamming a plug into an RJ45 socket.
Well, I looked it up and we're both wrong. Gasoline lamps do exist (no longer produced, fortunately) but they use-- wait for it-- GASOLINE, aka "PETROL". Gasoline is a chemical term and not generic. If you want to use "gasoline" as a generic term for "any liquid substance burned in a lamp", feel free to be ridiculed in the same manner as Texans who call all carbonated beverages "coke".
The researchers then studied 68 men and found those who played even one racing game took more risks afterward in traffic situations on a computer simulator than those who played another type of game.
Seems like, for this to be a valid experiment, they would have to put the subjects into an actual car. I mean, a simulator is just another game, with no consequences. Even putting them in a closed course would probably result in more accurate reactions.
Oregon Trail would be much different if it was created today. First of all, your party would have to be multicultural, even if it meant that no one could understand Paco because he never learned English and Apu starved or fell ill immediately because he's vegetarian. Second, dying would be considered too shocking-- and we wouldn't want the fragile young minds to deal with the concept of "losing"-- so one of the party members would have to be an unstoppable robot from the future that runs on solar power and eco-friendly batteries. Third, the savage "Indian" attacks* would have to replaced by hostile corporatists and oppressive Christian fundamentalists. Finally, the destination would have to be a hippie commune outside San Francisco. Successful settlers would be rewarded with a "Phish" or Blink 182 concert video hidden on the DVD.
* It seems that the version released in the mid 1990s had already replaced the Indians with faceless bandits.
I call BS. What you're claiming simply has never happened with tech. It always starts out expensive and drops in price as volume increases. By the way, the DVD was not released until 1996.
I'd hate to be a guest at your house when you light THAT lamp! I think you meant "kerosene", Captain Conceit.
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Hey, if you want to keep using your Packard Bell 286 with the ISA slots and monochrome VGA, I won't stop you. But remember, it still takes them a little time to reverse-engineer all these technologies from the alien spacecraft they recovered in '48.
Stop putting pressure on the need for people to spend "8 hours" doing work. Instead demand results and let the people use the best tools available to do that particular kind of job.
Actually, management likes to do both. Insist on spending 40 hours a week in the office, whether necessary or not-- usually picking up slack for other departments. Then try to produce something, even though you don't have the tools.
With all the accidents in coal mines, not to mention their addition of huge quantities of CO2 to the atmosphere, I think we should accelerate the decommissioning of these plants.
Reality: This argument fails for several reasons. Firstly, these protocols are optional; they have no special legal weight. Secondly, not everyone is aware of these conventions, so while using them might count for something
Ignorance is not an excuse. Welcome to the Internet... learn the protocols.
Their logic seems to be that if sealevels would have naturally risen by (say) 30 feet, it doesn't matter if we make them rise by an additional 20.
Well, no it isn't Captain Straw Man. The questions is, "of the climate change, how much of it is due to human activity?" If 0.001% is due to human activity, changing our behavior won't help much. The climate change could still be dangerous, but if carbon isn't causing it then if we want to fight against fate we would have to actively try to lower the average temperatures. If 2% is, maybe we should change.
The global flood narrative kinda fits nicely in there, doesn't it?
BTW: dolphins and whales don't have gills, either.
Your cute little quasi-syllogism doesn't support evolution too well, either. Why bother having air-breathing animals if, as you suggest, on a planet with 71% water surface it's a huge advantage to have gills?
Seriously, I'm impressed. Was the PET's write density that poor, or did you have a ridiculous amount of RAM in that thing? My VIC with the 3K RAM expansion could fit several programs on one side of a 60 minute tape.
LOL... no, that would be americain. The country is always referred to Etats Unis, however. And you forgot to mention that your own country is called Estados Unidos Mexicanos, or the United States of Mexico. So I will refer to you as USMexican!
Since the topic is only relevant to the USA, obviously we're not interested in the number of Mexicans, Canadians, Brazilians, etc. We're also not interested in any more worthless European pedantry.
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I think it's telling that this Libertarian joke was modded "+1, Funny" while the one below poking fun at carbon-neutral environmentalists was modded "-1, Troll".
Seriously, the population is rising in third-world countries where they are unable and unwilling to do anything about it; meanwhile, the peoples with the knowledge and motivation to take action are decreasing in numbers (and doing little more than proselytizing to the wrong crowd).
I heard of someone jamming a plug into an RJ45 socket.
Well, I looked it up and we're both wrong. Gasoline lamps do exist (no longer produced, fortunately) but they use-- wait for it-- GASOLINE, aka "PETROL". Gasoline is a chemical term and not generic. If you want to use "gasoline" as a generic term for "any liquid substance burned in a lamp", feel free to be ridiculed in the same manner as Texans who call all carbonated beverages "coke".
Oregon Trail would be much different if it was created today. First of all, your party would have to be multicultural, even if it meant that no one could understand Paco because he never learned English and Apu starved or fell ill immediately because he's vegetarian. Second, dying would be considered too shocking-- and we wouldn't want the fragile young minds to deal with the concept of "losing"-- so one of the party members would have to be an unstoppable robot from the future that runs on solar power and eco-friendly batteries. Third, the savage "Indian" attacks* would have to replaced by hostile corporatists and oppressive Christian fundamentalists. Finally, the destination would have to be a hippie commune outside San Francisco. Successful settlers would be rewarded with a "Phish" or Blink 182 concert video hidden on the DVD.
* It seems that the version released in the mid 1990s had already replaced the Indians with faceless bandits.
I call BS. What you're claiming simply has never happened with tech. It always starts out expensive and drops in price as volume increases. By the way, the DVD was not released until 1996.
Hey, if you want to keep using your Packard Bell 286 with the ISA slots and monochrome VGA, I won't stop you. But remember, it still takes them a little time to reverse-engineer all these technologies from the alien spacecraft they recovered in '48.
How many people have died in nuclear power accidents? Stop trolling. You're wrong.
With all the accidents in coal mines, not to mention their addition of huge quantities of CO2 to the atmosphere, I think we should accelerate the decommissioning of these plants.
The global flood narrative kinda fits nicely in there, doesn't it?
BTW: dolphins and whales don't have gills, either.
Your cute little quasi-syllogism doesn't support evolution too well, either. Why bother having air-breathing animals if, as you suggest, on a planet with 71% water surface it's a huge advantage to have gills?
Amateur. You should have used a single C-90 tape!
Seriously, I'm impressed. Was the PET's write density that poor, or did you have a ridiculous amount of RAM in that thing? My VIC with the 3K RAM expansion could fit several programs on one side of a 60 minute tape.
It's rather frightening that some slashdotters think that murder is OK as a means to an end. This deplorable post has been modded +2 so far.
The Amish do see modern doctors when necessary.
I no! Its gotten to be rediculou's, my freind! They're are so meny morans their on Slashdot!
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LOL... no, that would be americain. The country is always referred to Etats Unis, however. And you forgot to mention that your own country is called Estados Unidos Mexicanos, or the United States of Mexico. So I will refer to you as USMexican!Since the topic is only relevant to the USA, obviously we're not interested in the number of Mexicans, Canadians, Brazilians, etc. We're also not interested in any more worthless European pedantry.